Cardiologist Dr. Blair Erb has a new strategy when patients with known coronary artery disease come to his office for annual stress tests, which he believes are almost always unnecessary.
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As the countdown to the launch of painful federal budget cuts nears the zero hour, it would be foolish to expect new allocations of funding for anything, including medical research.
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In 2010, overwhelmed by a deluge of performance data coming from both internal and external sources, officials at the University of Michigan Health System formed a 25-member clinical quality committee charged with gathering all the information in one place and parsing out top priorities.
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HHS is bracing itself for the automatic federal budget cuts set to take effect next week, but it does not have a projection of how many department employees will be affected by the spending reductions.
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Cardiologist Dr. Blair Erb has a new strategy when patients with known coronary artery disease come to his office for annual stress tests, which he believes are almost always unnecessary.
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Radiologists are pushing back against critics of medical imaging overuse with a broad effort that seeks to defend the role of radiology and imaging within new payment and care-delivery models.
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HHS has offered a picture of what it expects certain insurance payment and coverage provisions to look like in 2014, and, when it comes to payment rates, insurers don't like what they see.
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Illinois state officials, who are already grappling with one of the nation's most severe fiscal crises, plan to continue fighting the federal government's efforts to squeeze the state Medicaid program for $140 million.
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In 2010, Phoebe Putney Health System agreed to write a $195 million check to buy its smaller crosstown competitor in southwest Georgia, a facility with just over 100 beds.
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One of the nation's largest health insurers will acquire its first hospital in a deal expected to close this week, but still unresolved is Highmark's $1.1 billion bid for a distressed health system central to its ambitious expansion plans.
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As more payers appear poised to reimburse providers for the care-coordination services provided under the patient-centered medical home model, other players are stepping up their medical home ancillary business services.
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The popular notion in healthcare is that the most aggressive fraud hunters—known as “zone program integrity contractors,” or ZPICs—focus on small players. That idea is wrong.
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In 2010, overwhelmed by a deluge of performance data coming from both internal and external sources, officials at the University of Michigan Health System formed a 25-member clinical quality committee charged with gathering all the information in one place and parsing out top priorities.
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The experiences of Milwaukee's Froedtert Health system during the past several weeks represent something of a microcosm of what the nation's healthcare system as a whole is going through.
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CLEVELAND—The Cleveland Clinic has agreed to share electronic records through the state of Ohio's CliniSync electronic medical-record exchange system, said Dan Paoletti, CEO of the Ohio Health Information Partnership, which runs CliniSync. University Hospitals announced a similar...
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who swiftly rejected Medicaid expansion under health reform after last year's U.S. Supreme Court decision allowed states to do so, called for the state to expand the safety net program for three years, or as long as federal tax dollars cover all the costs.
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IRVING, Texas—Christus Health, a Catholic not-for-profit health system, announced that it plans to enter into a joint venture with Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, a Chilean university owned by the Catholic Church. The memorandum of understanding signed by the two provides for...
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PITTSBURGH—The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center announced that LifeSolutions, its not-for-profit organization that specializes in employee assistance programs, has acquired Erie, Pa.-based Northwest Beacon EAP. Though financial details of the agreement are not being released,...
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As the countdown to the launch of painful federal budget cuts nears the zero hour, it would be foolish to expect new allocations of funding for anything, including medical research.
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From Aurora, Colo., to Newtown, Mass., to the apparent suicide of country singer Mindy McCready, the issue of mental illness has become a high-profile topic. Time after time, in tragedy after tragedy, we find people who have lost hope, become severely depressed, or who have displayed significant...
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By Susan Chimonas, Frederica Stahl and David Rothman
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No one has been more effective than Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) in promoting transparency in medicine. From 2004 to 2010, he investigated undisclosed conflicts of interest between physicians and pharmaceutical and device companies. His findings helped lead to the Physician Payments Sunshine Act.
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Joe Carlson's interview with outgoing Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz (“Championing consumers,”) repeated one of the chairman's favorite catchphrases, “pay-for-delay,” in the...
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A list of the nation's 15 largest healthcare fraud settlements, ranked by settlement amount recovered under the federal False Claims Act, 2012. Source: Modern Healthcare reporting and Navigant Consulting. Published Feb. 25, 2013, p. 34.
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RegionalCare Hospital Partners, Brentwood, Tenn., named Kent Wallace, president and COO of Vanguard Health Systems, Nashville, its new CEO, effective March 1. Wallace will replace RegionalCare founder Martin Rash, who was promoted to executive chairman. Wallace will serve on the board...
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You get only one chance to make a first impression, the saying goes. And, if that first impression is made in an intensive-care unit, it could make the difference for physicians trying to establish trust with a patient's family members in a short period of time.
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The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences may not be the Nobel Prize, but the 11 inaugural winners aren't likely to complain. The researchers and scientists honored last week each get $3 million, more than twice the cash that comes with the Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology.
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Outliers has to confess: We love Oscar! And we paid extra attention to one of this year's big Academy Award contenders, but not only because of its cinematic merits. It seems Steven Spielberg's “Lincoln,” which features Daniel Day-Lewis as America's 16th president, led one...
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